Eucken Rudolf Quotes & Sayings

Clotilde stammered. "Why didn't you hang yourself? You were just saying that art is eternal. I destroyed your eternal art. Why are you still alive, man?"
"What's eternal is eternal, but I still have to get my commissions done on time," said Vasya. "What did you think?"
Vasya was just an everyday hack sculptor of average talent. And Clothilde was reading too much Schiller. — Ilya Ilf

Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it. — Rudolf Christoph Eucken

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one. — Thomas Moore

For the past, rightly understood, is no mere past — Rudolf Christoph Eucken

I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business. — Debra Monk

Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature. — Rudolf Christoph Eucken

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things. — Rudolf Christoph Eucken

In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world. — Rudolf Christoph Eucken

I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette. — Alex Prager

Nothing is so essential as dignity ... Time will reveal who has it and who has it not. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it. — Anthony Burgess

In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple of years. That is going to slow down the Australian economy. It's bad for households. — Joe Hockey

Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself. — Mike Wilmot